Frankly if I had known about Penny's Baby-Doll Eyes spam I would've led Gardevoir and set up Calm Minds on Umbreon. The fight wouldn't even be annoying at that point, just pedestrian.
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The Best and Worst Boss Fights in Pokemon
- Thread starter Yung Dramps
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That's why I said that a lot of these fights have to be evaluated under blind run conditions.
It's *extremely* easy for people to pick them apart knowing what's coming, especially veterans like us. Knowing the moves they get makes it trivial to form a gameplan in as little as 60 seconds.
In Penny’s case I think it’s a story-driven decision. She’s a reclusive hacker, she’s not meant to be good at battle strategy.
Having a common move for the team, Baby-Doll Eyes in this case, don’t just help characterize a Trainer more than it would have without, but it can also leave blind playthrough players blinded at first, but can then figure out a strategy to counter it. Whether or not it makes for “Best” or “Worst” depends on the move in question (evasion-rising moves + statuses will make it a nightmare in the worst way possible), but it can help showcase a variety of strategies, even those that’s niche at best in competitive.
The lack of status moves ends up harming Nemona, Clavell and Arven as they got nothing to set up in advance or put the opponent in a bad position beyond damage, even if their team looks strong at a glance.
The lack of status moves ends up harming Nemona, Clavell and Arven as they got nothing to set up in advance or put the opponent in a bad position beyond damage, even if their team looks strong at a glance.
Why does Nemona have a Dudunsparce and a Orthworm in her final battle
Why all the worms
Why all the worms
Right, but she ends up being a surprising roadblock despite her objectively terrible team, and I think that's very interesting. It's also more memorable than something like Nemona, if only because she has a clear theme.
I've said before, but if they want to make trainers who are threats, they need to make fights that teach the player something, even if it's only "have a good mix of coverage with both special and physical moves"
Lycanroc, Goodra: Well-known strong mons
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Dundunsparce, Orthworm, Pawmot: Clearly intended to be some of the faces of this gen. The early-game electric-type, a meme, and a big threatening steel-type. Like, I don't think GF intended to push any of these mons, but I think they were definitely leaving themselves options in case one of them hit it big.